In The Ultra Mind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First – The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Mark Hyman claims that a hidden epidemic races around the globe — we can’t see it or touch it, which makes it so dangerous. The invisible epidemic has led to the suffering of millions […]
How Psychotherapy Helps Stress
Researchers have extensively explored the connection between psychological stress and the body’s physiological processes. Psychoimmunologists have focused on how stress affects the mind and body through the neuroendocrine system. A study at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Ohio State University College of Medicine found suppressed immune functioning in highly stressed medical students. […]
Healing & Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health
Healing and Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health provides a comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative treatments for mental health, with information and research on their effectiveness for treating specific disorders. Twenty-two chapters document research and the current practice of using complementary and alternative therapies in treating a number of disorders, including depression, […]
Acupuncture for Depression
Modern medicine typically treats depression with a form of psychotherapy and/or anti-depressant drugs regardless of the specific symptoms presented. In the United States, the DSM-IV, a diagnostic tool for appropriately categorizing psychological disorders, is widely used in the diagnosis as well as the treatment for depression. In contrast, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not recognize […]